- Dec 31, 2005
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I felt like the Intel HD530 graphics I've been on for the past few months was a bit buggy, especially coming out of sleep. Windows on my second monitor would often get bounced to the primary display or window sizes would be all off and messed up. It was very slow to detect and give a picture to my displayport screen. Occasionally the screen would flick black for a split second almost like a display driver crash.
Since I popped in my GTX950, all of the above mentioned issues are gone. The displayport monitor gets a picture almost as soon as I turn on the computer. Numerous sleep/resume cycles and everything is always exactly where I left it on the screen. There are other clear advantages to having a discrete card but just basic stability in day-to-day use is something, for sure.
If you've recently built/acquired a skylake machine and are using the Intel HD5xx graphics and have some annoying power management behavior or displayport weirdness, it's worth consideration.
Since I popped in my GTX950, all of the above mentioned issues are gone. The displayport monitor gets a picture almost as soon as I turn on the computer. Numerous sleep/resume cycles and everything is always exactly where I left it on the screen. There are other clear advantages to having a discrete card but just basic stability in day-to-day use is something, for sure.
If you've recently built/acquired a skylake machine and are using the Intel HD5xx graphics and have some annoying power management behavior or displayport weirdness, it's worth consideration.
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